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Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime

Inside Wendi Adelson & Dan Markel's Divorce, Custody Battle & The Days Leading Up to Dan's Murder

Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime

Big Pond Podcasts

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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0:00.0

July 18th, 2014, it's the very day that Dan Markell was gunned down in his Tallahassee driveway,

0:08.0

shot in the face twice by two hitmen hired by the Adelson family.

0:15.4

It turns out on that day, his post-divorce attorney was preparing to file paperwork

0:20.6

that could have changed everything in Dan Markell's bitter divorce from Wendy Adelson.

0:26.8

So you've got to ask the question.

0:28.3

Was that the moment that the plot against him boiled?

0:32.9

Welcome to the global phenomenon, surviving the survivor, where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime.

0:40.6

Here's your host, Emmy Award winning journalist Joel Waldman.

0:44.9

What's up, SCS Nation?

0:46.0

Welcome to Surviving the Survivor and our continuing coverage of the Dan Markell murder and justice for Dan.

0:52.8

We now have Donna Adelson facing the rest of her life in state prison.

0:57.9

And in Florida, life is life.

1:00.8

Again, this is Surviving, The Survivor, the show that brings you the very best guests in all of true crime.

1:06.2

And two of the best, best guests tonight.

1:09.1

Here he is.

1:10.0

I'll just bring him in right now.

1:12.5

Stephen Webster is one half of Webster and Baptiste.

1:16.3

Attorneys at law.

1:17.3

And if you were watching our coverage, I put up,

1:19.6

I happen to drive by their law firm in Tallahassee.

1:22.6

And they had a sign.

1:24.1

They have a digital marquee out front that said,

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